33 Bible Verses about Fathers Responsibilities

And this is the will of him that sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety at home, and so repay their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zachariah, after the name of his father.

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die the death.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

And these are the singers, heads of the fathers of the Levites, who remaining in the chambers were free from other service: for they were employed in that work day and night.

I have written unto you, fathers, because you have known him who is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God abides in you, and you have overcome the wicked one.

Take yourself wives, and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, that they may bear sons and daughters; that you may be increased there, and not diminished.

Now, lo, if he begets a son, that sees all his father's sins which he has done, and considers, and does not the same,

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of pitchers.

For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

And everyone that has forsaken houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

Yet say you, Why? does not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son has done that which is lawful and right, and has kept all my statutes, and has done them, he shall surely live.

For I came down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And the man that lies with his father's wife has uncovered his father's nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

You shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.

And the LORD said unto Aaron, You and your sons and your father's house with you shall bear the iniquity in connection with the sanctuary: and you and your sons with you shall bear the iniquity in connection with your priesthood.

If her father utterly refuses to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

For every one that curses his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

And he had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took as his own daughter.

What mean you, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children is their fathers.

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.

Your own friend, and your father's friend, forsake not; neither go into your brother's house in the day of your calamity: for better is a neighbor that is near than a brother far off.